Archive for the 'Actionscript' Category
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Revolution surface
A revolution surface (or surface of revolution) is a surface created by rotating a curve lying on some plane around a straight line (the axis of rotation) that lies on the same plane.
Read more on wikipedia.
I created a flash tool in Papervision, that allows you to draw a Hermite curve out of a number of nodes and control anchors. This curve then gets rotated around the y axis to create a revolution surface.
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Mandelbrot set
In mathematics, fractals are complex geometric shapes that are capable of describing irregularly shaped objects (e.g. snowflakes), that cannot be described by classical (Euclidian) geometry.
The Mandelbrot set is the mother of all fractals and was invented by the polish mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot. The Mandelbrot set is given by the iterative equation Zn+1 = Zn2 + c, where Z and c are complex values such as 2+i (where i is the imaginary square root of -1).
Read more on wikipedia.
But since pictures speak louder than words, check out these 2 youtube videos: one, two
When you are done, have a look at my version of the Mandelbrot set:
